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Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 10 times easier
- ck2 8mo agothey are currently down to just a month to crack RSA? > "In 2019, Craig Gidney at Google Quantum AI co-authored a paper that reduced these requirements from 170 million to 20 million quantum bits, or qubits." > "And in 2025, Gidney devised a way to slash that number to less than a million qubits. Now, Paul Webster at Iceberg Quantum in Australia and his colleagues have managed to decrease the number even further to about 100,000 qubits" > "Given this connectivity, the team estimated that for 98,000 superconducting qubits, like those currently made by IBM and Google, it would take about a month of computing time to break a common form of RSA encryption" > "Accomplishing the same in a day would require 471,000 qubits"
- Bender 8mo agoThe article sounds like theory to me. Has anyone used a quantum computer to break all the hashes that hashcat [1] can currently attempt to break for real? Has anyone ported hashcat to a quantum computer? [1] - https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ https://hashcat.net/hashcat/